Circa: Wolf 5*****

Circa wolf is a show like no other. Tense and dramatic throughout you feel fully immersed in the experience and never want it to stop.

From the start the atmosphere is all encompassing: a mix of tense drum based … Read More

CSI Crime Scene Improvisation — 5*****

This is my teenager and my second year of seeing this brilliant show. The premise is that we, the audience, help a detective catch a murderer. In order to set the scene the audience is asked for suggestions about the … Read More

Depths of Wikipedia — 3.5***

This show is basically one very enthusiastic and entertaining woman talking about Wikipedia for an hour, which sounds much less entertaining than it was.

I learned a surprising amount about how Wikipedia works, including who can update pages and the … Read More

Mitch Benn – Asking Elvis 4.5 ****

I have seen many guises Mitch Benn has presented over the 30 years or so he has been in and around the Fringe in August, yet year by year this very gifted funny man manages to present a different … Read More

Aidan Greene – Stuttermilk Pancakes – 4****

Using any kind of disability to make people laugh can sometimes be a bit of a difficult watch, however, Aidan Greene’s show, Stuttermilk Pancakes, embraces his stammering with hilarious results. Don’t get me wrong, there are times where I wanted … Read More

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown – 4****

In this energetic one-man show Ben Goldsmith takes on the roles of criminals great and small all trying to make their way in the sleazy (and decidedly silly) city of CrimeLandTown.

In the mafia mould of crime classics such as … Read More

The Ugly Duckling – 4****

Revel Puck Circus and Underbelly reimagine the classic tale of the Ugly Duckling, a children’s story we all know well, and put a self-aware and high circus spin on it. What’s great here is that before the show has … Read More

Treeeeee – 3***

Treeeeee compresses a tree’s 500-year life into a brisk 50 minutes, performed solo (sort of) by Christiaan Hendriksen in the small Daisy room at Underbelly, Bristo Square. Framed by the folkloric Green Man, the piece plants a pine cone, … Read More

Angelica Mode 4****

Angelica Mode are an Edinburgh-based three-piece built around identical Dublin-born twins — singer-songwriter/guitarist Brian Hughes and bassist-synth wielder Martin Hughes — plus Stevie Sticks on drums. Formed in 2020, they’ve clearly spent the last few years chiselling their sound into … Read More

The Mequetrefo – 3***

We entered not really knowing what to expect but hopeful; however, The Mequetrefo landed as a mixed bag. Parlapatões offer this fast-paced, minimal spoken-word show in the day-to-day life of four compadres. They start in a makeshift bed, and … Read More